Threshing Wheat
Thomas Hart Benton
Oil on Canvas
82.1 cm x 150.3 cm
Sheldon Swope Art Museum
"Is a tractor bad? Is the power that turns the long furrows wrong? If this tractor were ours, it would be good - not mine, but ours. We could love that tractor then as we have loved this land when it was ours. But this tractor does two things - it turns the land and turns us off the land. There is little difference between this tractor and a tank. The people were driven, intimidated, hurt by both. We must think about this." (Chapter 14 Grapes of Wrath)
Tractor in Modern World -
(Notice the pollution it is creating)
Threshing Wheat
Thomas Hart Benton
Oil on Canvas
82.1 cm x 150.3 cm
Sheldon Swope Art Museum
"Is a tractor bad? Is the power that turns the long furrows wrong? If this tractor were ours, it would be good - not mine, but ours. We could love that tractor then as we have loved this land when it was ours. But this tractor does two things - it turns the land and turns us off the land. There is little difference between this tractor and a tank. The people were driven, intimidated, hurt by both. We must think about this." (Chapter 14 Grapes of Wrath)
Tractor in Modern World -
(Notice the pollution it is creating)
Link to recreation of art:
http://www.globalgallery.com/enlarge/23336/
Connection
Fourth Wall